Routineer Quotes & Sayings

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought. — Richard Scarry

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. — Terry Pratchett

A good wanderer leaves no trace. — Laozi

When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican ... there are not a lot of rich people there. — Alfonso Soriano

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it. — Barry Humphries

It had changed to hate. The hate that she prayed for Jesus to take away. But it was also part of what had kept her going so how could she do without it now? That kind of hate is a species of animated scrap metal. Rusting,
corroding inside, leaching into the vital organs. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

He believed I could do more than I believed I could do. It was endearing and empowering, but also overwhelming. — Laurelin Paige

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. — Abraham Lincoln

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me. — Nicholas Sparks

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof. — Walter Lippmann

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken... — Evanescence

In a problem, the great thing is the challenge. A problem can be challenging for many reasons: because the subject matter is intriguing, because the answer defies unsophisticated intuition, because it illustrates an important principle, because of its vast generality, because of its difficulty, because of a clever solution, or even because of the simplicity or beauty of the answer. — Frederick Mosteller

I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. — David Levithan